Orders Arrest of US Copts Over YouTube Trailer

Promises of reforms after the end of the Mubarak era haven’t borne out, as Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s government is continuing to harshly crack down on dissent both at home and abroad.

Today, a Coptic Christian teacher in southern Egypt was sentenced to six years in prison for posts on Facebook which were deemed an “insult” to Islam as well as an “affront” to President Mursi. Scores of protesters were outside the courtroom demanding an even more harsh sentence.

State censorship has continued to be a serious problem in Egypt, after the regime closed a newspaper and launched cases against multiple journalists last month for “fueling sedition.”

But now they have designs on imposing their laws abroad, charging a number of US Coptic Christians with charges over allegations they were involved in an anti-Muslim YouTube trailer which caused protests in Cairo. Egypt has promised to press the US on extradition, though this seems almost certainly a non-starter.

Geez… you don't even make a pretense of being objective anymore. Your headline is 'Egypt Imprisons Christian Teacher for Insulting President'.

The headline of the article you linked to was actually 'Egypt: Copt sentenced for insulting Islam, leader'.

Actually, he got 3 years for insulting Islam and the Prophet, 2 for insulting Morsi and his family, and 1 for insulting the man who accused him.

(Commenters can disagree with that if they like, although defamation of character, libel, etc., are punished in many other countries, too. My point is that antiwar.com's headline is deliberately misleading – one reason why their credibility has taken a beating lately.)

Who cares if he insulted islam or the "prophet" I would call the prophet a child molestor but to each their own. Insulting religion shoudl not be punshiable. Putting people in jail because they believe in different false man made gods is BS. This is why religion needs abolished this hocus pocus BS has caused enough deaths